Hardened structure for the decontamination of persons affected by chemical, biological, or nuclear attack. Visited with Gingrove
Abandoned in 1994, although you wouldn’t think it, its virtually mint inside!
A radiation symbol on the back of the entry door slightly unnerved me, but reading it properly reveals that this place was geared up to decontaminate 100 people at a time. Mainly for chemical / biological attack, but for occasional nuclear decontamination (albeit a lot smaller numbers) This paper sign is from January 1975.
I love how the vault makers plaque on the door describes how long it will resist each type of attack for!
Decontamination requires lots of filtration:
‘Normal’ (un contaminated persons) Reception Area:
Unfortunately a police firearms training exercise took place in here shortly after closure which has caused some damage. You can see some 9mm bullet holes through the original Perspex here
I’m assuming this had a sheet of plastic in the front during its working period to display certain statuses:
Old TV. Had to take a pic of this, it was the same TV we had in our house growing up!
Decontamination areas:
So you’d have your external shower before even getting close to entering. Once inside you’d strip your ‘dirties’ (bar your gas mask) and pop them down an double airlocked chute and head to the showers…
Through another double airlock you’d come to these showers. You’d be showering 4 at a time, so you’ve got to have a close relationship with your colleagues! Note the double air locked chute for your dirty gas masks too.
Decontamination sick bay, with pull down ‘beds’. Check out that door in the background too.
More art (some of you will recognise the fella chucking lighting bolts from some of my previous posts!)
At one end an admin block had been added. It wasn’t hardened or protected at all, it even had windows! Still, nice corridor shot to finish:
Thanks for looking.
Abandoned in 1994, although you wouldn’t think it, its virtually mint inside!
A radiation symbol on the back of the entry door slightly unnerved me, but reading it properly reveals that this place was geared up to decontaminate 100 people at a time. Mainly for chemical / biological attack, but for occasional nuclear decontamination (albeit a lot smaller numbers) This paper sign is from January 1975.
I love how the vault makers plaque on the door describes how long it will resist each type of attack for!
Decontamination requires lots of filtration:
‘Normal’ (un contaminated persons) Reception Area:
Unfortunately a police firearms training exercise took place in here shortly after closure which has caused some damage. You can see some 9mm bullet holes through the original Perspex here
I’m assuming this had a sheet of plastic in the front during its working period to display certain statuses:
Old TV. Had to take a pic of this, it was the same TV we had in our house growing up!
Decontamination areas:
So you’d have your external shower before even getting close to entering. Once inside you’d strip your ‘dirties’ (bar your gas mask) and pop them down an double airlocked chute and head to the showers…
Through another double airlock you’d come to these showers. You’d be showering 4 at a time, so you’ve got to have a close relationship with your colleagues! Note the double air locked chute for your dirty gas masks too.
Decontamination sick bay, with pull down ‘beds’. Check out that door in the background too.
More art (some of you will recognise the fella chucking lighting bolts from some of my previous posts!)
At one end an admin block had been added. It wasn’t hardened or protected at all, it even had windows! Still, nice corridor shot to finish:
Thanks for looking.
